The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), on Thursday urged more women to contest the forthcoming district assemblies’ elections to enable them to participate actively in policy formulation and decision-making processes.
Mrs...

The stories of gang-rape, forced marriage and fathers being forced to rape their own daughters at gunpoint keep her awake at night. Saran Keïta Diakité has listened to countless women recount the atrocities that the people of her war-torn country (...

The stories of gang-rape, forced marriage and fathers being forced to rape their own daughters at gunpoint keep her awake at night. Saran Keïta Diakité has listened to countless women recount the atrocities that the people of her war-torn country (...

Ahead of a tripartite elections next year the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has shown the world that it is moving with time by setting a deliberate policy to allow women in the country pay 25 per cent less the nomination fees of parliamentary...

UNDP’s Gender Team has been working with the AAP to help African governments mainstream gender in their climate-related development efforts.
The impacts of climate change are not gender-neutral, and neither are the right responses. Gender...

Malawi: Female MPs issue ultimatum on ‘stealing’ of beds: State House explains

Women Parliamentary Caucus members have strongly demanded Minister of Health Khumbo Kachali, who is also the country’s Vice-President, to return back the hospital beds from Mponela Hospital where they were snatched to be given to Mzimba for...

The United Nations body on gender equality, "UN Women", on Friday pledged to cooperate with the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic.
After an audience granted by the chairperson of the Assembly, Veronica Macamo, the representative of...

Mozambique believes that women's emancipation is of key importance, but it must be handled in such a way that it empowers women, rather than simply making the statistics look good, said the country's First Lady, Maria da Luz Guebuza, in...